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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.

The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    adduser is an interactive wrapper for useradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than execute passwd separately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading through useradd's command line options, then running usermod because you forgot to set something.

    It doesn't excuse the bad naming, I'd rather have something like useradd --interactive, but it's worth remembering.

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